[inscribed by the author] Part I. The Story of Rollo. Part II. Stories and Sketches. With Illustrations by Louis Braunhold. Cover Design by Robert J. Burdette, Jr. Indianapolis and Kansas City: The Bowen-Merrill Company, 1897. 6 pp undated ads. Original red cloth decorated in black, white and gilt. First Edition... More about CHIMES FROM A JESTER'S BELLS [inscribed by Burdette].

[1 of 200 signed copies] A Play. London: [Morland Press,] 1923. Original full limp vellum, in the original green cloth box with spine label. First Edition, being one of 200 copies numbered and signed by Conrad (this being #177) -- issued as the fourth title in the Morland Press's "The... More about LAUGHING ANNE [1/200 copies signed].

London: William Heinemann, 1921. Original grey boards with Japan vellum spine with printed label. First English Edition, being one of 250 numbered copies signed by Conrad -- this being copy #171. This was actually printed in America: Doubleday Page produced 500 copies, sending half of them to Heinemann for this... More about NOTES ON MY BOOKS [1/250 signed].

London: Privately Printed for Subscribers only by T. Werner Laurie, 1923. Original parchment-backed boards with spine label, with dust jacket. First Published Edition, which is to say the Limited Edition -- being one of 1000 numbered copies signed by Conrad (this being #475). This was Conrad's dramatization of his 1907... More about THE SECRET AGENT. A Drama in Three Acts [1/1000 copies signed].

[inscribed to Arthur Symons] A Confession. London & Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons, (1917). 18 pp undated ads. Original light grey-green cloth decorated in brown. First Edition, first issue (so stated), of Conrad's third autobiographical (though fictionalized) work -- "a Far-Eastern story of a haunted ship... No reader of... More about THE SHADOW-LINE [inscribed by Conrad].

Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. Original navy blue cloth decorated in gilt. This is a volume from the "Concord Edition" of Conrad's works, published the year before his death; included is a fold-out map of the world showing all 19 of Conrad's literary voyages. The volume is... More about TALES OF UNREST.

Two pages, front and back of "Undershaw, Hindhead, Surrey" mourning stationery. No date, but July 1906. The text of this letter (headed by "Private & Confidential") reads: You may have heard of my great sorrow. My wife passed away this week. Her illness and death have naturally turned my thoughts from business..... More about Autograph Letter Signed to "My dear Mr. Frohman".

[inscribed by A. Conan Doyle] Fourth Edition. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1892. 24 pp ads dated "6/92". Original maroon cloth lettered on the spine in silver. "Fourth Edition," which is to say the fourth printing of the first edition, issued with its silver stamping (and a frontispiece plate) as... More about THE CAPTAIN OF THE POLESTAR and Other Tales [signed by Doyle].

[FOUR signatures of A. Conan Doyl] Illustrated. New York: George H. Doran Company, n.d. [1921]. Original green cloth. First American Edition, issued in the same month as the English edition, and consisting of only 1500 copies. This is Doyle's account of his 1920-1921 missionary tour of Australia and New Zealand... More about THE WANDERINGS OF A SPIRITUALIST [inscribed plus three letters].

[1 of 300 signed copies] New York: House of Books, 1954. Original maroon cloth, with glassine wrapper. First Edition, being one of of 300 copies numbered and signed by T. S. Eliot (this being #160); there were also 26 lettered copies for presentation. The book was not published in England... More about RELIGIOUS DRAMA: Mediaeval and Modern [1/300 copies signed].

[inscribed by the author] With Illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy. Decorations by Margaret Armstrong. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1900. Original green cloth decorated in dark green, light green, red and white. First Edition of this tale by Paul Leicester Ford, published two years before he was murdered by... More about WANTED - A MATCHMAKER [inscribed by Ford].

Three pages (one leaf folded). Plain stationery but with "46 Plymouth Grove [Manchester]" handwritten at the top. Undated except for "Monday Evening." Signed "E.C. Gaskell." After the salutation, this letter reads as follows: We started in such a hurry on Saturday that we found this morning that we had only looked..... More about Autograph Letter Signed, to "My dear Mrs. Darbishire".

[a lengthy literary letter] One leaf folded, on mourning stationery headed "Max Gate, Dorchester." Four pages of text, addressed to "My Dear Mrs Ward," signed "Yours sincerely, Thomas Hardy," and dated 24 March 1905. This long letter is Hardy's response to his receipt, from Mrs. Humphry Ward, of a copy... More about Autograph Letter Signed [to novelist Mrs. Humphry Ward].